The Mill House And Attached Mill Bridge

The Mill House and attached Mill Bridge is a building located on Mill Lane in Great Braxted. It dates from the 17th or 18th century and was originally associated with a water mill, of which only the mill race bridge remains. The house is timber framed and plastered, standing on a brick plinth, with a red plain tiled gambrel roof that is half hipped to the left. It features a central red brick chimney stack and has two storeys plus attics. There are later wings at the rear and a single storey extension to the right.

The front of the house has a five-window range with various small paned vertically sliding sashes, and the ground floor windows have shutters. The central window on the first floor is a leaded two-light casement with a moulded surround and a flat canopy supported by brackets. The left side attic includes a two-light vertically sliding sash with glazing bars and Gothic heads. There is also a three-window range below. The entrance features a four-panel two-light door with a moulded surround and a flat canopy on brackets, with attached outbuildings now incorporated into the house to the left of the door. Some timber framing is exposed internally.

To the left of the house is the original bridge to the mill race and water wheel, constructed of red brick with soldier coping on the south face and moulded brick coping on the north face. The bridge has one arch that adjoins the house, along with a pair of sluice arches to the west, which have been restored with cutwaters. The entire site, including the outbuildings, forms a very attractive group beside the River Blackwater.